4,. . , ' . ..... WIIOLE No. 197.] TERMS OF TILT 7.7IITINGInIT JOITP.I\TAL. I'he "Journal" will be published every "ednesday morning, at two dollars a year if id IN ADVANCE, and if not paid within months, two dollars and a half. Kvay pe'rson who obtains five subscribers forwards pried of subscription, shall be sashed with a sixth copy gratuitiously for ,e year. to.; 303cription received tor a less period in six months, nor any paperdiscontinued ti I arrearages are paid. All commuhications mast be addressed to e Editor, post paid, or they will not be ended to. Advertisments not exceeding one square ill be inserted three times for one dollar for very subsequent insertion, 25 ficents per . uare will be charged:—if no detnite orderd .e given as to the time an adverisment is to continued, it will be. kept in till ordeed it, and charge accordingly. To the Public. THE public are hereby informed, that ACOB MILLER ihas been appointed agent ir Huntingdon county, for the sale of Dr, :vans' Camomile and family aperient pills, 'here all those that need medicine, can be applied as he intends always to have a sup ly unhand. IFE AND HEALTH,—Persons whose 44 nerves have been injured by Calomile, r excessive grief, great loss of blood, the sup session of accustomed discharges or cuta eons, intemperate habits, or other causes ,hick tend to relax and enervate the ner •ons system, will find a friend to soothe and onitort them, in EVANS' CAMOMILE 'ILLS. Those afflicted with Epilepsy or 'tilling Sickness, Palsy, Serious Apoplexy, nil organic affections of the heart, Nausea, /oinking, pains in the side, breast, limbs, lead, stomach or back, will find themselves nimediately relieved, by using :VANS' CAMOMILE AND APERIENT PILLS. Da. EVANS does not pretend to say that kis medicine will cure all diseases that flesh Lnd blood are heir to, but he does says that a all Debilitated and Impaired Constitutions —in Nervous diseases of all kinds ' particular yof the DIGESTIVV, ORGANS, and in ncipient Consumption, whether of ills lungs it liver, they will cure. That dreadful dis :age' CONSUMPTION, might have been :pecked in its commencement, and disap minted its prey all oyes the land, if the first ;ymptoms of llervons Debility had been imnteracted by the CAMOMILE FLOW, Lit chemically prepared; together with many Aber diseases, where other remedies have ,raved fatal. How many persons do we daily find tortu •ed with that dreadful disease,SlCK RADACHE, If they would ony make rial of this invaluable medicine, they would ,ierceive that life is a pleasure and not a zource of misery and abhorrence. In conclu dun I would warn nervous persons against lie abstraction of BLOOD, either by leech :4, nupping4or the employment of the lancet. Drastic purgatives in delicate habits are al nost equally improper. • Those ;are prac :ices too often resorted to in such cases, but :hey seldom fail to prove lliighly injurious. Certificates of cures are daily received which iild sufficient testimony of the great efficacy ilthis invaluable medicine, in relieving of licted mankind. The above medicine is for stile at Jacob Miller's store, Huntingdon. ' Swayno's Compound Syrup of pru nus of Virginiana or wild Cherry. This syrup is highly . beneficial in all pecto ral affections; also. in diseases of the chest In which the lungs do not perform their proper office from want of due nervous energy: such as asthmas, pulmonary con iuniption, recent or chronic coughs, hoarse liars, whooping cough, wheezing and ;dif ficulty of breathing, crov and spitting of jlood, 4'c. How many sufferers do we daily behold approaching to an untimely grave, wrested in the bloom of youth from their dear relatives and friends, afflicted with that common and destructive rava ger, called consumption, which soon warts Ole miserable sufferer until they become beyond ,the power of human skill; it such sufferers would cnly make a trial of Dr. swayne's invaluable medicine, they would coon find themselves benefitted; than by ;ulphing the various ineffective certain remedies of which our newspapers daily abound. This syrup immediately begins to heal the ulcerated lungs, stopping pro fuse night sweats, mititigating the distres sing- cough at the same time inducing a 'healthy and natural expectoration, also re lieving the shortness of breath and pain in the chest, which harrass the sufferer on the slightest exercise, anti finally the hec tic flash in the pallid and emaciated cheek will soon begin to vanish, and the sufferer ; will here peceive himself snatched from a premature grave, into the enjoyment again if comfortable health. ' For sale at Jacob Miller's store Hunt. MEAD THIS!: Da. SWAYNE'S COM— POUND SYRUP of PRUNES VIR OINIAN A, or %Vito CHERRY: This is de cidedly one of the best remedies for Coughs and Colds now in use: it allays irritation of the Maga, loosens the cough, causiug the plegm to raise free and easy; in Asthma, ulmonary Consumption, Recent or Chron ic Coughs, Wheezing 8c Choking of Phlegm 'Hoarseness, Difficulty 0 . hreathing, Croup, ,Spltting of Blood. etc.. This Syrup is war •ranted to effect a pbrmanent cure, it taken According to directions which accompany the bottles. For sale only at Jacob Miller's stors .Huntingdon, THE GARLAND. :v. ._, I -.With sweetest flowers enrich'd From various gardens cull'd with care." COURTSHIP, BY THOMAS MOORE. Oh Laura!!—will nothing I bring thee E'er soften those looks of disdain? Are the songs of affection I sing thee • All doom'd to be sung thee in vain? I offer thee fairest and clearest, A treasure, the richest I'm worth; I offer the, love, the sincerest, The warmest e'er glowed upon earth? But the maiden, a haughty look flinging, Said, 'cease my compassion to move: For I'm not very partial to singing, And they're poor whose sole treasure is My name will be sounded in story— I offer thee, dearest, my name, I have fought in the proud held of glory! Oh Laura come share in my fame! 1 bring thee a soul that adoreth thee, And loves thee wherever thou art, Which thrills as its tributes it brings thee Of tenderness fresh from the heart.' But the maid said, 'cease to importune; Give Cupid the use of his wings; Ah, fame's but a pitiful fortune— And hearts are such %rainless things!' 1 0h Laura, forgive, if Iv'e spoken Too boldly—nay turn not away— For my heart with affection is broken— My uncle died only to-day! My uncle; the nabob—who tended My youth 'and afiection and care, My manhood who kindly befriended— Has died—and—has left me his heir!' And the maiden said, 'weep not sine crest, My heart has been your's all along; 0111 hearts are of treasures the dearest: DO—EDWARD—go on with your mg'. • Oltotettantotto. ROKANCE OF BROADWAY have earned three di Wings, York, this blessed efterneon!' I exclaimed with ill-suppressed exultation, as I threw down my pen, which I had been diligently using for four hours—(l was penning an article for a certain 'monthly,' dear reader)— pusheu my closely written manuscripts from me, and complacently took a yellow cigar from my hat, which I have made my chief pocket since my fifth year, the time I believe, whet my discriminating parents exchanged my infant ,cap for the manly castor. Three York shillings 1 have made this blessed day, heaven be thanked and now I can concient' ously take a little 'ease in mine inn.' Whereupon, I igni ted my cigar with a self—enkindling appa ratus, a gift from my considerate landla dy—pray heaven she charge it not in her bill--to save her candles, and ascending the three steps to my window, I seated myself in my accustomed chair, and forth with began to speculate on things exter nal. It was that calm, lovely tin o, which is wont to usher in the of a sum mer evening. The roll of wheels beneath me in Broadway was ceaseless. Bright forms flashed by in gay carriages! The happy, the gallant, ant" the beautiful, were all forth to take the air on the fash ionable evening drive! Why was I not with the cavalcade? Where was my Rosi nantel ff here was my 'establishment?' Echo answered, 'where?' 1 puffed away silently and vigorously for a few seconds, as these mentarqueries assailed me; and blessed soother of the troubled, oh! incom parable cigar! my philosophy returned. Diagonally opposite to my window, stands one of the proudest structures on Broadway. It is costly with stone and marble, loft) porticoes and colonnades. Tis edifice first attracted my attention by its architectural beauty, ai.d eventual ly fixed it by a mystery, that seemed, to my curious eye, snrrounded one of its in mates! But I will throw into the story vein what I have to relate, for it is a nee vellette in itself. I can unveil you the mystery, lady! lady of dazzling beauty was an in mate of that mansion! and, for aught I know to the contrary, its only inmate. Every afternoon, arrayed in .iiinple white, with a flower or two in her hair, she was seated at the drawing room window, ga zing out at the gay spectacle Broadway exhibits of a pleasant afternoon. I saw her the first moment I took possession of "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1839. my dormant nook, and was struck with her surprising loveliness. Every evening I paid distant homage to her beauty.— Dare a poor scribbler, a mere penny-a-li ner, aspire to a nearer approach to such a divinity, enshrined in dollars and cents? No! I worship like the publican, afar off. "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view." But she was not destined to be so worshipped by all. One afternoon she was at her window, with a gilt leaved vol ume in her hand, when a gentleman of the most graceful bearing rode past my win dow. He was well mounted, and sat on his horse like an Arabian! He was what the boarding school misses would call an elegant fellow! a well bred woman of the world, a remarkably handsome man! Tall, with a fine oval face, a black penetrating eye, and a moustache upon his lip, togeth er with a fine figure, and the most perfect address, he was what I should term, a captivating and dangerous man. His air, and a certain indescribable comme id Taut, bespoke him a gentleman . As he came opposite her window, his eye, as he turn ed it thither, became fascinated with her beauty !—How much lovelier a real love ly creature appears, seen through " plate glass!" Involuntarily he drew in his spi rited horse and raised his hat! The ac tion, the manner, and the grace, were in imitable. At this unguaaded moment , the hind wheel of a rumbling omnibus struck his horse in tire chest. The animal reared high, and would haie fallen back upon his rider, had he not, with remarka ble presence of mind, stepped quietly and gracefully from the stirrup to the pave ment, as the horse losing his balance, fell violently upon his side. The lady, who had witnessed with surprise the involunta ry homage of the stranger, for such, from her manner of receiving it, ho evidently was to her, started from her chair and screamed convulsively. The next mo ment he had secured and remounted his horse, who was only slightly stunned with the fall, acknowledged the interest taken in his mischance by the fair being who had been its innocent cause (unless beau ty were a crime), by another bow , and rode slowly and composedly onward, as if nothing unusual had occurred. The next evening the carriage was at the door of the mansion: The liveried footman was standing with the steps down, and the handle of the door in his hand. The coachman was seated upon his box. I was, as usual, at my window. The street door opened, and, with a light step, the graceful form of my hero ine came forth and descended to the car riage. Atthat moment—(some men sure. ly are born under the auspices of more indulgent stars than others)—the stranger rode up, bowed with ineffable grace, and —(blessed encounter that, with the omni bus wheel!) his bow was acknowledged by an inclination of her superb head, and a smile that would make a man of any soul seek accidents even in the "cannon's mouth." He rode slowly forward, and, in a few seconds, the carriage took the same direction. There are no inferences to be drawn from this, reader! All the other carriages passed the same route. It was the customary one! At the melting of twilight into night, the throng of riders and drivers repassed. The lady's car riage (it was a landau, and the top was thrown back)—came last of all! The cavalier was riding beside it! He dis mounted as it drew, up before the door, assisted her to the pave, and took his leave. For several afternoons, succes- I sively, the gentleman's appearance, moun- Ited on his noble animal, was simultaneous with that of the lady at her carriage. One evening they were unusually late on ' their return. Finally the landau drew up before the door. It was too dark to see faces, but I could have worn the equestrian was not the stranger! No! he dismounted, opened the dour of the carriage and the g entleman and lady de scended 1 The footman had rode his horse, while happy man ! occupied a seat by the side of the fair one! I watched j the progress of this amour for several days, and still the stranger had never entered the house. One day, however, about three o'clock, I'. M., I saw him lounging past, with that ease and self-pos session which characterized him. Ho passed and repassed the house two or three times, and then rather hastily as ' tending the steps of the portico— pulled at the bell. The next moment he was admitted, and disappeared out of my sight. But only for a moment, reader! An attic has its advantages! The blinds of the drawing-room were drawn, and impervious to any glance from the street; but the leaves were turned so as to let in the light of heaven and my own gaze! I could see through the spaces, directly down into the room, as distincly as 11 there was no obstruction! This I give as a hint to all concerned, who have revol ving leaves to their venetian blinds. Attic gentlemen are much edified thereby! The next moment he was in the morn, his hand upon his heart—another, and saw hith at her feet! Sir—would that had language to paint you the scene.-- BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT. Lady—f. then learned the "art of love." So many, and so conflicting, have been I shall have confidence, I have so good a the accounts and conjectures respecting pattern, when Igo to make my declare- the defeat of Braddock, and the army he bon. The declaration, the confession, commanded, in 175 a, that real causes the acceptation, all passed beneath me, have been lost in mist. As lam not con most edifyingly. Then came the labial fined to any regular plan of historical nar seal that made his bliss secure. By his ration, the following is given as it was animated gestures, I could see he was ur- given to me : ging her to some sudden step. She, at In January, 1824, I met James Ross, first, appeared reluctant, but gradually Esq., of Western Pennsylvania, whom I becoming more placable, yielded. In ten had known from my infancy. While re minutes the landau was at the door. calling scenes long past, which, from his They came out arm in arm, and enter- much more advanced age and experience, ed ,t. I could hear the order to the coach- Mr. Ross knew so much better, the defeat man, "drive to St. John's Church." "An of Braddock was mentioned, and on that elopement," thought I. "Having been in subject he observed—"l can relate What at breaking cover, 'I will be in at the was related in my hearing by the father of death," and taking my hat and gloves, I his country," and then proceeded. descended, as if I carried a policy of in- "In that part of war which consists in surance upon my life in my pocket, the watching an enemy," observed Gen. long flight of stairs to the street, bolted Washington, "the Indians are perfect," out of the front door, and followed the and the army commanded by Braddock landau, which I discerned just turning was watched carefully by some Indian the corner of Canal street. I followed spies and some French soldiers trained to full fast on foot. I eschew omnibuses. Indian manners. Independent of Indi- They are vulgar. When I arrived at the ans, there was in Fort du Quesne no force church, the carriage was before it, and at the time, which could, with any pro. the " happy pair," already joined together, bability of success, oppose the advancing were just crossing the trottoir to re-enter British and Provincials, and the French it. The grinning footman, who had legal- commandant in the fort had expressed the ly witnessed the ceremony , followed necessity of either retreat or surrender. them. By accident, rather than from any design The next day, about noon, a capacious or concert, there were, at the moment, family carriage rolled up to the door of about the fort four or five hundred Indi the mansion, followed by a barouche with an warriors. Of the French garrison one servants and baggage. First descended officer, of Inferior rank, strenuously org an elderly gentleman, who cast his eyes ed that, for the honor of the French arms, over the building, to see if it stood where some resistance ought to be made. This it did when he le ft for the Springs. Then young man consulted the Indians, who came, one after another, two beautiful volunteered to the number of about four girls; then a handsome young man.— hundred. With difficulty, the young he " How glad I am that I have got home ro obtained from his commander perinis again," exclaimed one of the young la- sion to lead out, to a certain limit, such dies, running up to the steps of the door. French soldiers as chose to join in the " I wonder where Jane is, that she does desperate enterpeise. Of the French, not meet us'?" about thirty volunteered, and with these • The gentleman was for going to the four hundred and thirty men the gallant door, and the lady, his bride, was striving Frenchman marched our to meet more to prevent his,. " You shan't! !"—ol than threefold their number. will ! I say you shan't!"—" I say I "In the meantime, every remonstance wiil !"—were interchatiged as certainly by other colonial officers and by Wash between the parties, as if I had heard the ington himself, was rejected with insult, words. The gentleman, or rather has- and Braddock advanced, as if determined band, pt-sailed. I saw him leave the on destruction, and was suffered to pro room, and the next moment open the cced just as far as the enemy desired. street door. The young ladies started Once in the snare, defeat and death to hack at the presence of the new footman. near one half of the whole army, with The old gentlinan, who was now at the their infatuated general, was the result, door, inquired as-he saw him, loud enough When the victory was reported t 3 the for me to hear, "Who in the devil's name commandant at Fort du Quesne, his tran are you sirl" sport knew no bounds; the youre , hero "I have the honor to be your son-in- was received with open arms, loade d with law." the most extravagant honors, and in a "The devil you have; and who may few days sent to report the victory to the you have the honor to bel" Governor General of Canada. But be " The Count L—y," with a bow of hold when the despatches were opened, ineffable condescension. the) consisted of criminal charges of ape " You are an impostor, sir." culation in his office of paymaster, and of "Here is your eldest daughter, my other charges equally criminal. Under wife," replied the newly made husband, these charges this injured man was tried, taking by the hand hielovely bride, who broke, and ruined. So matters rested un had come imploringly forward as the til, in the Revolutionary war, the subject disturbance reached her ears. "Here is of Braddock's defeat happened to come my wife, your daughter." into conversation between Gen. Wash " You are mistaken, sir, she is my ingten and the Marquis de Lafayette. In house-keeper." this conversation the real facts were sta- A scene followed. that connot be descri- ted to Lafayette, who heard them with bed. The nobleman had married the unqualified - astonishment; but, with his gentleman's house-keeper. She had powerful sense of justice, determined to spread the snare, and, like many a wiser do all in his power to repair what lie con fool, he had fallen into it. sidered a national act of injustice, he took Half an hour afterward, a hack drove and preserved careful notes, and on his to the servant's hall door, and my heroine return to Europe had inquiries made, and came forth closely veiled, with bag and the victim found in a state of poverty and baggage, and drove away. The Count, wretchedness, broken down by advancing for such he was, I saw no inure. I saw years and unnerited oblopuy. The at his name gazetted as a passenger in a fair was brought before the Government packet ship that sailed a day or two after for Havre. How he escaped from the of France and, as the real events were made manifest, the officer was restored to mansion , remaineth yet a mystery.— his rank and honors." Henceforth, dear reader, I most consci- Ido not pretend to have reported the entously eschew matrimony. exact words of Mr. Ross, nor did lie pre tend to give verbatim the expressions of Gen. Washington, but as to the general facts, there is no doubt of their truth ; and who is to decide the mood of baseness between the two comeianders on the in side and outside of Fort du Quesne Another fact I believe founded in truth. When I was removed tv my parents to the neighborhood, the popular report was, that Braddock received the mortal wound from a man of the name of Fausett. When my lather was removing with his family to the West, one of the Fausetts kept a pub lie house to the eastward from and near where Uniontown now stands as the coun ty seat of Fayette county, Pa. This man's house we lodged in, about the 10th °Mc tuber, 1781, twenty six years and a few months after Braddoefc'e defeat, and there it was made any thing but a secret that one of the family dealt the death blow to the British General. Thirteen years afterward I met Thom as Fausett in Fayette county, then, as he told me in his 70th year. To him I put the plain question, and received the plain reply,'/ did shoot him!" He went on to insist that, by doing so, he contributed to save what was left of the army. In brief, in my youth, I never heard the fact either doubted or blamed, that Fausett shot Braddock. New Steamboat Paddles.—Mr. Ro gers and Rankin, lock manufacturers, in North Seventh street, have invented a set of Machinery for propelling steamboats, which seems to do away with all the diffi culties hitherto experienced with the com mon wheels. On each side of the boat there ure three sets of paddles which fall alternately into the water, and rise nearly perpendicularly, so that there is no strik mg the water when the paddle descends, nor holding water when it ascends. As three sets, each of six paddles, are playing on each side, it follows that, with proper power, there must be rapid motion given to the boat. The machinery, and the sets of paddles may be raised or depressed to suit the draft of the vessel in which they are used, or they may be unshipped with ease, and the whole works placed below decks.—Phil. Gaz. FOR THE.WEST—The Bu!lido Journal of the 29th ult. has this: A PATRIARCH-A gentleman aged 77, having in company his sixth wife and being the father of 26 children, passed through this city yesterday for the west. Verily; his ideas of emigration come late in the day. . ' . . . - .. All*A . U 7 , ~ A • THE FORCE OF HA . DIT STRONG IN DEATH. --The friends of a dissipated young man bit upon the following novel exrdient in the hope of effecting his reformation. Hav ing a couple of coffins prepared for the pur pose, and placed in the family vault, on his being bronght home one night in a sense less condition, they conveyed him thither, and stowed him snugly away in one of (hem, a member of the family taking pos session of the other to watch his move. ments. After remaining for some time incased in his "prison house," lie aroused from his stupor and gazing round in aston ishment at his new residence, exclaimes, i "Am I dead I" "Certainly, "rejoined his sepulchral friend. "How long have I been here 7" he asked . "About three years." was the answer. "And how long have you been here 7" lie again enquired. "Seven years," responded the companion. "Well, as you have been dead a longer time than I have, I suppose you know the beat how to get something to drink!"—Sunday Morning Visitor. "Do you want a ra'll prime lot of but ter?" said a Yankee notion dealer, who had picked up a load at fifty different places, to a Boston merchant. 'What kind of butter is it 1' asked the buyer. 'he clear quill; all made by my wife from adairy of forty cows —only two chur nings,' 'But what makes it so many different colors 1' said the merchant. iDarnation ! hear that now,' I guess you would'nt ax that question it you'd seen my cows, for they're a darned sight specelder than the butter is' The Character of Washington.—The beautiful effusion which the reader will find below, is the production of the chaste and classic mind of the late venerable and distinguished Senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Robbins, and was occasioned by the following circumstances :—During the session of 1837-8, Mr. fiebster enter tained a large party of friends at dinner; atnong them, the venerable Senator we have named. The evening passed off with much hilarity, enlivened with wit and sentiment; but, during the greater part of the time, Mr. Robbins maintained that grave but placid silence which was his habit. While thus apparently abstracted, some one suddenly called on him for a toast, which call was seconded by the com pany. He rose, and in his surprise, ask ed if they were serious in making such a demand of so old a man ; and being as sured that they were, he said if they would suspend their hilarity fora few moments, he would give them a toast, and preface it with a few observations. Having thus se cured a breathless stillness, lie went on to remark that they were then on the verge of the 22d of Feb. the anniversary of the birth of the great patriot and statesman of our country, whom all delighted to remember and to honor; and he hoped that he might be allowed the privilege of an aged man to recur for a few moments to past events connected with his character and history. He then proceeded, and delivered, in the' most happy and impressive manner, the beautiful speech which now graces our columns. The whole company were elec trified by his patriotic enthusiasm ; and one of the guests, before they seperated, begged that he would put on paper what he had so happily expressed, and furnish a copy for publication. Mr. R, obligingly complied with the request on the follow ing day, but by some accident, the mono scriptgot mislaid, and eluded all search for it until a few days ago, when it was un— expectedly recovered, and is now presen ted to our readers : "On the near approach of that calendar day which save birth to WASHINGTON, I feel rekinding within me some of those emotions always connected with the re collection of that hallowed name. Per mit me to indulge them, on this occasion, for a moment, in a few remarks, as pre liminary to a sentiment which I shall beg leave to propose. I consider it as one of the consolations , of my age, that lam old enough and for tunate enough to have seen that wonder ful man. 'lbis happiness is still common to so many yet among the living, that less is thought of it now than will be in after times; but it is no less a happiness to me on that account. While a boy at school, I saw him for the first time; it was when he was passing through New England to take the com mand in chief of the American armies at Cambridge. Never shall I forget the im pression his imposing . presence then made upon my young imagination ; so superior did he seem to me to all that I had seen or imagined of the human form for striking effect. I remember, with what delight„ in my after studies, I came to the line in Virgil that expressed all the enthusiasm of my own feelings, as inspired by that presence, and which I could not often enough repeat: [ VoL. IV, No. 41 From the Boston Atlas.
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